The Emergence of Green Information Technology (Green IT): the Uses of ICTs for Corporate Environmental Sustainability

绿色信息技术（绿色IT）的出现：利用ICT促进企业环境可持续发展

• 批准号: 1059099
• 负责人: Manuel Castells
• 金额: $ 0.99万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1059099&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Emergence; Green; Information; Technology; Uses

NSF STS Dissertation Improvement Grant Manuel Castells and Jingfang LiuAbstract:This project is a study of green Information Technology (green IT), which has emerged as a cutting-edge form of sustainable technological innovation and one of the key social and business phenomena in the past few years. The research will be grounded in a process view of communication and change and move to explore the values of environmental sustainability, the high tech industry's evolving orientation and struggle toward environmental sustainability, and their adoption of changes in organizational behavior surrounding various types of green IT innovation. Intellectual meritThe study will address the following primary research questions: What are the meanings of green IT and IT greening? Why are high-tech firms adopting green IT innovation and why can green IT be structured as a necessity or an opportunity? How are high-tech firms adopting green IT innovation and what communication processes are involved in both the discursive and practice change of IT greening and organizational change? The project proposes a mixed method using qualitative case studies to inform a quantitative study of industry-wide green IT innovation. The case study will also be supplemented with a preliminary set of interviews with green IT experts and change agents from diverse organizations and agencies. As the main methodology, the case study will involve several comparative case studies of selected IT firms using a combined method of in-depth interviews, critical document review, and participant observation. Broader impactWith empirical data from a leading-edge technological and organizational innovation, this project will help advance academic inquiry in the fields of communication, science-technology-society, organizational change, technological innovation, and business and environment. The project also bears crucial meanings by providing valuable lessons and reality check for business and organizations at large as they consider strategies about how to move towards being environmentally sustainable as well as economically viable through green IT.

NSF STS论文改进资助Manuel Castells和Jingfang Liu摘要：该项目是对绿色信息技术（绿色IT）的研究，它已成为可持续技术创新的前沿形式，也是过去几年中的关键社会和商业现象之一。 本研究将立足于沟通和变化的过程观，探讨环境可持续性的价值，高科技产业的发展方向和对环境可持续性的斗争，以及围绕各种类型的绿色IT创新的组织行为变化。知识价值研究将解决以下主要研究问题：绿色IT和IT绿化的含义是什么？为什么高科技公司采用绿色信息技术创新，为什么绿色信息技术可以作为一种必需品或机会来构建？高科技企业如何采用绿色资讯科技创新，以及资讯科技绿色化与组织变革的论述与实践改变涉及哪些沟通流程？ 该项目提出了一种混合的方法，使用定性的案例研究，为全行业的绿色IT创新的定量研究提供信息。本案例研究还将辅以对来自不同组织和机构的绿色IT专家和变革推动者的初步访谈。作为主要的方法，案例研究将涉及几个比较案例研究选定的IT公司使用的深度访谈，关键文件审查和参与者观察相结合的方法。更广泛的影响从一个领先的技术和组织创新的经验数据，该项目将有助于推进学术研究领域的通信，科学技术社会，组织变革，技术创新，商业和环境。该项目还具有重要意义，为企业和组织提供了宝贵的经验教训和现实检查，因为他们考虑如何通过绿色IT实现环境可持续性和经济可行性的战略。